Twenty-First Strategies

Coal share with the Clean Power Plan could drop to below 20 percent.

Shifts in the generation mix in recent years have had an enormous impact on carbon dioxide emissions. For 2015, the carbon intensity of total generation was more than 20 percent lower than in 2005, accounting for 476 million metric tons in reductions. The dramatic decline is our focus here in Part 2.

The carbon dioxide emission reductions in the electric power sector have been the largest single factor in reductions in the U.S. since 2005.